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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. If you’ve already soft launched, have a product available, are telling the world about your awesome company but don’t have revenue/user growth, you’re probably in the red zone. They’re betting on you.

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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

www.thestartup.eu

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. Tipsandtrip was born from an idea of social media consultant Juliette Bellavita and Blogo.it The app obviously geolocalizes every info and integrates with Facebook and other social networks.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Create a strong brand, solid social community, sell advertising. Once you’ve done that – then. do something else.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. The group also hosts its annual QPrize competition, awarding winners with $750,000 in seed funding.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” Spend the time raising money yourself, using oblique sources of revenue such as contract work or any one of a hundred others. Add to this that 72.7% Translation?